This volume is the first one in a collection connected to the PRIN project on 'Ruling in Hard Times. Patterns of Power and Practices of Government in the Making of Carolingian Italy'. Its focus lays on bishops and their networks of relationships in late-8th and 9th-century Italy. The episcopal contribution to the inclusion of the Lombard kingdom in the Carolingian social and political landscape is especially analyzed from the perspective of the cultural exchanges (of ideas, texts, and manuscripts) that bishops created or used to carry out their public and pastoral duties. Each paper focuses on a specific episcopal figure or area, reconstructing the scope and extent of the relationships of which they were the pivot. The aim is to provide as comprehensive a picture as possible of the cultural networks that crossed Carolingian Italy and the ways in which bishops shaped and made use of them.
Author(s): Gianmarco De Angelis, Francesco Veronese (eds.)
Series: Reti Medievali, 41. Ruling in Hard Times. Patterns of Power and Practices of Government in the Making of Carolingian Italy, 1
Publisher: Firenze University Press
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 232
City: Firenze
Episcopal authority and networks in Carolingian times: recent approaches and perspectives, by Gianmarco De Angelis, Francesco Veronese 1
1. Carolingian 'ecclesia' and multiple episcopal identities 3
2. Back to manuscripts and politics of textuality: readings from this book 6
Lothar's manuscripts, manuscripts for Lothar, manuscripts of Lothar's time, by Laura Pani 13
1. A Lothar library? 15
2. Lothar’s display codices and the Lothar-Gruppe reconsidered 17
3. Manuscript production in Lothar's Italy 24
A fragmentary story: episcopal culture in Milan during Lothar I's reign?, by Miriam Rita Tessera 33
1. Episcopal culture during the age of Angilbert II: an open question 35
2. Re-building Milanese culture during the age of Lothar I 39
3. Networks of texts and images around the golden altar: Angilbert II and the portrait of Mansuetus, bishop of Milan 44
The struggle for (self-)integration. Manuscripts, liturgy and networks in Verona at the time of Bishop Ratold (c. 802-840/3), by Francesco Veronese 67
1. Introduction 69
2. Bishops coming from across the Alps 71
3. Verona and the 'ordines romani' 73
4. Innovations in liturgy and book production in early Carolingian Verona 77
5. Conclusions. Verona and the Alamannian hub in the first half of the ninth century 81
Canons, books of canons, and ecclesiastical judgments in Carolingian Italy: the Council of Mantua, 827, by Michael Heil 91
1. Introduction 93
2. The Council of Mantua: context 94
3. Maxentius’s canonical argument 97
4. The Council’s decision 102
5. The canonical argument after Mantua 104
6. A Lucchese coda 106
Representations of Lothar I in the 'Liber pontificalis Ravennatis', by Edward M. Schoolman 111
1. Introduction 113
2. Emperors in Ravenna 114
3. The 'Liber pontificalis' as a source for Ravenna and Lothar 116
4. The 'Liber pontificalis' on the Carolingian civil wars 120
5. History and memory of Lothar I in and beyond Agnellus 122
6. Conclusion 125
'Per Padum fluvium termino currente usque [...] Civitatem Novam atque Mutinam'. Consolidation and affirmation of the Church of Modena and its bishops in 9th-century Carolingian Italy, by Edoardo Manarini 131
1. Introduction 133
2. A polycentric and complex territory: the Modena area and royal measures in the eighth century 135
3. The 822 landmark charter of the Church of Modena 138
4. Bishop Leodoin and codex O.I.2: episcopal authority and the exercising of law 142
5. Conclusion: Bishop Gotfredus and the 'castrum' at Cittanova 147
Writing, textuality, politics in the Lucca of Bishops Berengar and Ambrose (837-852), by Paolo Tomei 157
1. The context 160
2. A text 164
Appendix 173
The two versions of the life of Pope Sergius II in the 'Liber pontificalis'. Anti-Frankish feeling in Rome after Louis II's expedition of 844, by Maddalena Betti 181
1. Introduction 183
2. The life of Sergius II in context 184
3. The two biographies of Sergius II: the life and the life with its continuation 186
4. The continuation of the life of Sergius II and the life of Leo IV: a comparison 190
5. The consequences of the 'Constitutio Romana': analysis of the first narrative core of the continuation of the Life of Sergius 192
Conclusions, by Steffen Patzold 199
Index of names 209
Index of manuscripts 217
